Re: Kernel Oops with HIMEM+VM in 2.4.19,20

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:58:35 -0800


On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:48:27AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Looks like someone e.g. invalidate_inode_pages(), truncate_inode_pages(),
>> etc. etc., left pages hanging around. Borderline VM/vfs stuff. Or swap
>> code mangled something important. This oops either has buttloads of
>> stack noise or some other issue corrupting it. Can you find the first
>> oops? If this is not the first oops, then it's probably not useful.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:09:53AM -0800, Anthony Lau wrote:
> That was the first Oops message logged. System instability starts before
> any oop messages begin to show up in the standard syslogd logs. Something
> does appear in ksymoops. I have setup "klogd -x" and await the next log.

Okay, what filesystem(s) are you using (this usually has something to do
with a filesystem)?

Also, are you applying any patches to 2.4.19/2.4.20?

Thanks,
Bill
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